Cooking-stove



J. A. PRICE.

COOKING sToVE.

(No Model.)

Patented June 21.1887.

u l I l y l l A UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

JOHN A. PRICE, or soEANToN, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKING-sTovE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,349, datedJunc-a 21, 1887.

Application filed July 1s, i885 To all wil/am, ib may con/067%.-

Be it known that I, JOHN A. PRICE, of Scranton, in the county of Ilackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, ref erence being had to the 4accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

My present invention relates to improvements in cookingstoves, and more particularly to that portion known as the bridgepiece,77 adapted to be insertednear the center of the topof a stove and serving to support in part the lids or tops located therein; and it consists in certain novel devices and combinations of parts, whereby the same is prevented from burning by a too intense ire in the firepot of the stove, or from warping and becoming misshapen by the unequal heating of the same, all as will be hereinafter full-y described, and pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure lis a sectional View of a cooking-stove provided with my invention; Fig. 2, a section of a connecting-piece between the bridge-piece and air-passage; Fig.

3, a perspective view showing the connection between the connecting piece and the end of the passage; Fig. 4, a perspective View of the bridge-piece detached, and Fig. 5 a sectional view of the same. j.

Similar letters of reference in the several figures indicate the same partsA A is the main casing of the stove, constructed in anyapproved manner, provided with the oven B and tire-pot, C, the latter. having4 in its 'bottom the removable grate-sections D D. Erepresents the top of the stove constructed, as usual, of several plates or lids, F, and connecting-pieces, as will be readily understood.

Usually these stove-tops are constructed of a number of pieces adapted to fit into each other andso connected that the whole of the interior of the stove can be exposed by remov- .ing them, and of course there must be some piece that sustains the weight of all the pieces, projecting across the stove. This is termed a bridge-piece, and'projects from one side to the otheror from front to rear, as desired, and

.Y Serial No. 171,962. (No model.)

as it does support the weight of the lids and the utensils on the stove-top, it should necessarily be strong, and, if possible, rendered so `that it will not warp under the strongest heat applicable to it, nor be altered by sudden changes in temperature. I provide a means for accomplishing these objects by making the bridge-piece hollow and providing for a supply ofair to it all the time, and also supporting it intermediate the ends.

In Figs. 1,4, and 5 I have shown the bridgepiece lettered G, cast, preferably, hollow and provided on its upper side with two perforations, g g, at opposite ends, whichV may also serve as means for the application of lifters or handles employed for raising the piece from its position on the stove, and on its sides Aand ends with the flanges or recesses for co-operating with the main portion of the stove-top and for the accommodation of the flanges on the sides of the lids F. i

Projecting up through the oven, preferably, is a tube or passage, I, whose lower end opens to the air beneath the stove; or it may open to one side, if desired, its upper end terminating at the top of the oven and surrounded, pret'- erably, by an undercut flange, i, as shown inv Figs. 1 and 3.

H represents a short tubular section of some material which may be refractory, though metal will answer probably as well, provided on its lower end with a ilange, h, adapted to co-operate with the iiangez on the oven-top.` as in Fig. 3, so that when the two are placed together they will be held firmly by the interlocking flanges. The upper end of this section is adapted to iit within the perforation g inthe lower side of the bridge-plate,and when I The section H serves, also, as a support for the bridge-piece and effectually prevents its sagging when hot and having a heavy weight upon it, but being located directly over the iire it might become c'lamaged more or less by the heat and products; but it can be readily removed and replaced by another when desired, or it may be made of iireclay, and thus will serve for a longer period.

It Will readily be seen that similar arrangements maybe made for providing for the coolL ing of the smaller cross-pieces on which the lids rest, and the recesses in all of them be made to communicate with the one channel, I, if desired, or separate ones employed.

Various modifications will at once suggest themselves to those skilled in the art; and I therefore do not desire to confine myself to the exact form of apparat-us herein shown and described.

I claim as my inventionl. In a cookingstove, the combination,\vith a hollow bridge-piece provided with perforations opening into the external air, ot a tube or passage-way located Wit-hin the stove-casing and eonnnnnicating with the air, and a removable section forming a part of said passage and connecting its end with the hollow bridge-piece, substantially as described.

2. In a cooking-stove, the combination, with a hollow bridge-piece provided with perforations opening into the external air, ot' a tube or passage-way located within the stove-casing and communicating with the external air, and a removable tubular section forming part of the passage, located at a point where the passage crosses a ilne and Where it is subjected to the greatest heat, substantially as described.

3. In a cooking-stove, the combination, substantially as herein described, of the hollow bridge-piece having the perforations opening into the external air, and the passage-Way l0- cated within the stove-casing also leadingfrom said bridge-piece to the external air, and having the removablesectiou provided with anges which co operate with corresponding flanges on the oven or other part of the stove, substantially as described.

4. In a cooking-stove, the combination,with the hollow bridgepiece having openings into the air and the opening in itslower side, of the passage located Within the stove-easing and communicating with the air, and theremovable tubular section forming a part of the passage having the ilange adapted to co-operate with corresponding recess or recesses at the end of the passage proper, and having also the end formed to enter the bridge-piece, substantially as described.

5. In a cookingsstove, the co1nbination,\vith the hollow bridgepiece having the openings to the external air, of the passage opening to the air extending up through the oven of the stove, and a tubular section connecting the end of said passage with the bridge-piece, substantially as described.

6. In a cooking-stove, the con'ibination,with the hollow bridge-piece having the openings to the air, of the passage-Way located within the stove easing communicating with the air passing to the lower side of the upper flue, anda removable tubular section connecti ng the end of the passage with the bridge-piece and crossing said iiue, substantially as described.

7. In a cooking-stove, the combinatiomwith the bridge-piece, of a support therefor connected removably to the stove-frame beneath said bridge-piece by means of the interlocking lugs aud flanges, substantially as described.

S. In a cooking stove, the combi11ation,with the bridge-piece, of a tubular support therefor connected removably to the stoveframe beneath said bridgc'pieee by means of the inter locking lugs and ilanges, substantially as described.

JOHN A. PRICE.

Vitnesses:

FRED F. CHURCH, E. T. WHITE. 

